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Brett

 posted on 7th Nov 12 at 21:11

Hangs then reboots once it's loading mup.sys or something like that.


Sam

 posted on 7th Nov 12 at 21:01

Safe mode?


Brett

 posted on 7th Nov 12 at 20:39

Ok, so I did a clone onto another drive. It boots as such, but after the Windows loading screen it reboots :lol: :0


pow

 posted on 5th Nov 12 at 19:05

Acronis True Image is the best


Brett

 posted on 2nd Nov 12 at 00:43

:lol: ok


Sam

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 23:06

Because it won't work, basically.

Long answer - you won't be able to copy files in use by Windows or any "protected" OS files, and even if you could you won't be able to boot Windows due to a lack of boot sector info on the new drive.

In short - just use a cloning program that copies sectors rather than just files.


Brett

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:58

Out of curiosity, why can't I just literally select all and copy over?


Sam

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:52

There's Acronis TrueImage I think. Not free but it could be :o


Brett

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:26

Sorry, just realised Sam suggested Clonezilla


Brett

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:25

Not reckon I could just get away with using synctoy? If not, any dead simple clone software you can suggest? Less clicking the better, as you can tell I'm going a bit lazy on this one :lol:


John

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:19

An image/clone using whatever program will do the job fine.


Sam

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:18

Just use a drive clone program like clonezilla, it's on the ultimate boot cd and probably others too


Y869 SRA

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:17

Interesting question.
Never thought of doing that although personally, I think I would just do do a fresh install.


Brett

 posted on 1st Nov 12 at 22:12

Hello

I have a PC with windows installed on it. The HDD is only a small one. I have a larger drive I'd like to replace that with but I really CBA doing a fresh install of windows plus everything else. Could I get away with just dragging across the entire contents of the drive to the other or taking an image or something along those lines? Not sure what's best.

Cheers